Obama’s XL Pipeline Refusal Tilts Canada Permanently Toward China

Is this hope, change, or “forward”? Canadian PM Stephen Harper says that after President Obama’s decision to scuttle the XL Pipeline that would have moved Canadian oil to and through US markets, his country has been forced to seek more reliable markets.

“Look, the very fact that a ‘no’ could even be said underscores to our country that we must diversify our energy export markets,” Harper told [former Dem. Rep. Jane] Harman in front of a live audience of businesspeople, scholars, diplomats, and journalists.

“We cannot be, as a country, in a situation where our one and, in many cases, only energy partner could say no to our energy products. We just cannot be in that position.”

His wide-ranging question-and-answer at the influential non-partisan think-tank — which also touched on border security, trade, the Arctic and Syria among other topics — followed a meeting with Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon at the White House for the sixth North American Leaders’ Summit.

Harper also told Harman that Canada has been selling its oil to the United States at a discounted price.

So not only will America be able to buy less Canadian oil even if Keystone is eventually approved, the U.S. will also have to pay more for it because the market for oilsands crude will be more competitive.

Maybe when he wishes that the United States could be China for a day, NYT columnist Thom Friedman has a point: If we were China, we could at least buy oil from our neighbors to the north without worrying that our own president would stand in the way.

In light of today’s decision regarding a lite amnesty for some illegal aliens, the president’s economic policies seem to boil down to this: Screw American jobs, screw American energy, screw American citizens.

That’ll fit on a tweet, too.

Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.

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Bozo the Clone

Oh great. It’s bad enough that we’re on the verge of being able to ask, “Who lost Egypt?”, but now we get to ask, “Who lost Canada?”

And there’s more: Australia feels compelled to tilt more towards China, and Obama’s first order of business was to brush off the UK.

I certainly hope that PM Harper’s comments are being prepared in a nationwide ad to expose this anti-capitalist marxist in his true light……and all his marxist, America-hating vermin ‘friends’. This man is a menace to our country, not a President. Maybe if those Americans (that are left) who want to hide under the covers and pray that we are wrong and this man simply ‘has a different opinion, but he really doea love America in his own way’ and is not actually a muslim-marxist-America-hating revolutionary will wake up when they hear the words coming from the mouth of a head of state of a long-standing ally in Canada. This man wants to destroy our way of life and America’s power and influence in the world. WAKE UP! He is well on his way…..unless we stop him.

The Democrat Party put this political Marxist thug into office using the big lie of Stalin, “if its a lie big enough and said enough times, the useful idiots will believe it.” With the help of the MSM Propaganda machine they have put a communist in the White House. John McCain the dumbest AH in the Senate wouldn’t even fight for his country, was afraid of being called a racist, that was their plan all along, his whole campaign was run by the DNC and the New York Times. These AH RINO Senators wouldn’t even go against Eric Holder because they were afraid of the PC backlash, we have to have people smarter than Elmer Fudd.